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Smithsonian exhibit featuring Anthony Rendon’s first baseball card to debut later this year

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will introduce a traveling exhibit this fall honoring the Latino community’s contributions to, and appreciation for, baseball — and it will feature former Washington National’s star Anthony Rendon.

“¡Pleibol!” In the Barrios and the Big Leagues/En los barrios y las grandes ligas” will debut at the National Museum of American History on Oct. 9. The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service will bring a version of the exhibit to 15 cities through 2025.

In the District, “¡Pleibol!” opens in the museum’s Albert H. Small Documents Gallery and will feature more than 60 artifacts and objects, including Rendon’s childhood jersey and “first” baseball card.

Rendon signed a seven-year, $245 million deal with the Los Angeles Angels in December, less than two months after the Nationals won the World Series.

“‘¡Pleibol!’ presents Major League stories, but it is first and foremost rooted in communities and the reality of who…

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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